River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-17

March s-The Senate passed the change OF
Venue bill, making the prejudice of people

March s-The Senate passed the change of
Venue bill, making the prejudice of people
sufficient ground for granting it,
In the house the hi | forbidding the EN-
pioymens oi Ilnkerton's men in the state
was killed. The proposed amendment to
the constitution to compel foreigners com
ing 70 the State to reside five years instead
OF me before being eligible To vote, was de-
foated. The Senate bill Incorporating the
city OF Juneau passed The bill passed APP
! propriating 500, 600 for the reclamation of
swamp lands in Manitowoc and Calumet
counties; also forbidding out OF door fires at
certain dangerous seasons; authorizing
county boards TO fix the pay of surveyors at
IS, or -, per day.
MARCH l0-The Senate disposed OF quite
a bulk of local and minor bills, a consider
able number being indefinitely postponed
The bill raising the age of consent from 10
TO IA and providing life imprisonment as
the penalty for carnal knowledge of any
female under that age was ordered to the
third reading.
In the House the bill was indefinitely
postponed for a State steam engine in
spector chiefly on the ground of expense of
having threshing machine and farm
engines inspected. The following bills
passed Providing for a register in probate
in st. Croix county; compelling railroad
companies to keep an ak and saw on the
outside as well as on the inside of passenger
ears, and providing fine of SIS for each
day the matter is neglected; amending the
str tutes In regard TO the distribution of the
school fund income so that the money
shall be apportioned among the differ
OF children between the ages of 4
ana ~ living in each; suppressing
the spread of infections and CON
eaglous diseases among cattle, and pro-
viding for the appointment of state
veterinarian al an annual salary of 5000,
and appropriating the the late school fund
among the counties in a manner similar 10
that OF districts, but providing that DO town
or village shall receive anything il it has
failed to raise by tax during tho precedin z
year sum equal TO the amount OF its share
of the income; providing a punishment of
one years imprisonment, or $500 fine
| Tor Keeping opium joints; authorizing rail
road companies police officers to act on
their premises; requiring bank stock to be
| taxed in the assessment district where the
bank is located. Senate bills were con
Cured in: Appropriatng the sum of ST., 200
/ for the erection of buildings for the state
school for dependent children at Sparta
| specifying mutual benefit associations
which shall not be declared insurance com
/ panies, and providing that no society not
enumerated in the bin shall be exempt from
the general insurance laws OF the state.
/ The senate memorial to congress praying
! for better protection against pleuro- pneu-
| monia was concurred in.
MARCH lin the Senate the follo lowing
bills passed: To incorporate the city OF
| Richland Center; for the better protection
OF mortgagor against mortgage; providing
that deer may be killed only between Oct.
l and Nov. 10, woodcock between July 10
and Dec. ], ducks, geese, prairie chickens
and all varieties of grouse pheasants and
quail between Sept / and May l, and no
such fur-bearing animals shall be killed OF
| trapped in streams flowing wholly or partly
on lands owned by parties who are breed
| ing them; the use of decoys, sneak boats,
snap-guns and snairs is prohibited; the
night hunting and night trapping of these
animals or birds is prohibited. No person
shall ship carcasses OF any of the edible
game protected by this bill out of the state
In the House the following bills passed
Permitting communities to regulate auc-
| lions and auctioneers; to incorporate the
city of Pittsville; leaving the matter oil
| furnishing free text books optional with
school districts; severely Furnishing false
pretenses in giving false pedigrees of live
stock: providing that if any parent shall
wilfully abandon his or her children, leav-
Ing them in destitute condition, on convic
| ton thereof, he or she shall be imprisoned
| for fifteen days on bread and water only OF
| by confinement in state prison not to ex
coed one year; providing that any person
who shall boycott shall be punished by i'm
| prisonment in Jail not more than one yea
or by a fine not exceeding $50; materially
increasing the penalty for blackmail.
MARCH 14-It is thought at the slow pro
gress that an adjournment of the legislature
cannot be reached before the middle oil
| April. There are over eight hundred bills
yet TO be considered in the two branches
and three hundred and fifty have already
| been passed upon.
In the Senate today the following bill,
passed; Fixing the penalty for having
carnal knowledge of girl under fourteen
| years of age at life Imprisonment, the Law
now making the age ten years; pro yidine
| for the burial of INDECENT ex-Union soldiers
making the euticing away from home o.
chaste, unmarried women punishable by {
maximum Imprisonment of fifteen years.
In the House the following bills were
passed: For the better protection of cattl,
| against pleuro- pneumonia; making it q
misdemeanor to issue bank checks without
having bank deposit, making it larceny
to take away during trespass anything at
tached to reality; The Senate bill was con
CURED in Incorporating the city of RichlanC
Center. bill passed fixing the penalty
for making or selling bogus butter without
! notifying the purchasers of the bogai
character of the substance at not to exceed
| thirty days imprisonment, or a maximum
fine OF 81. Quite number of bills were
| killed.
3 MARCH l5-The legislature took a shor
recess this morning in honor of Senator,
Sawyer and Spooner, VINO had just arrived
from Washington. An informal reception
was held and pleasant speeches of gratitude
were made by both senators.
In the Senate a bill passed permitting the
inebriatsd to be sentenced TO the state
insane hospital, the state TO incur none o.
the expense of maintenance.
In the House the bill passed permitting
the county board to levy tax of one-fiftf
OF one mill, to be used in aid of INDECENT ex
Union soldiers, or their dependents; appro
priating $1,000 with which to make Wis
| consin school exhibit at the national schoo
convention in Chicago in July, and incor
porating the city of Marinette.